Who we are: Diane and Larry Mott are a husband and wife team with experience in firearms and retail operations. Larry is also an honorably discharged U.S. Marine with significant training and experience in personal and diplomatic protection as well as an avid hunter. Diane has many years of retail experience in big box stores and takes great pride in providing superior and individualized customer service. Larry and Diane live in Mount Eden.

Retail and entertainment outlets in Shelby County are uniting as part of a cycling tour that would bring visitors to establishments around Shelbyville to sample a variety of cuisines.

The 2011 Sip N' Spin bike rides will be April 16 in Shelby County, offering rides through the countryside and neighborhoods that culminate at Claudia Sanders Dinner House for a tasting paired with a sampling of traditional Kentucky adult beverages.

Anybody who has worked hard, saved and invested needs an estate preservation strategy. A good one can help ensure that your assets are protected and loved ones cared for in the future. One of the best reasons to preserve an estate is to honor what you’ve done. People don’t want everything they’ve worked for in their lives to have no value in the future.

Despite continued low interest rates for loans and reports of the recession ending, the number of home foreclosures continues to rise across the nation and state in 2010, and Shelby County was no exception.

In the past five years the foreclosure rate has risen 117 percent in Shelby County, from 105 to 228.

That rate started to level off in 2009 but still increased by 2.3 percent in 2010, to 228 foreclosures in the county.